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2024PC, Steam Deck playable91 % positive14.79 €

Hard Chip is a realistic puzzle and optimization game about designing processors, covering CPU logic, floor planning and propagation delay. It suits tinkerers who enjoy understanding and refining technical systems.

  • Deep systems to master
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Challenging difficulty
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Turing Complete

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2021PC, Steam Deck playable95 % positive20.49 €

Brings what grabs you about Hard Chip: complex systems to tinker with, puzzles to figure out and a demanding difficulty.

You build a computer from the ground up, from basic logic gates to your own CPU and assembly programming. A cleverly structured puzzle game that teaches computing one layer of abstraction at a time.

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Quantum Odyssey

Deep systems to master

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Infinifactory

Calm and deliberate

A 3D engineering puzzler from Zachtronics in which you build factory lines for alien captors that assemble products. The appeal lies in tinkering and optimizing your solutions against other players' results.

Freeways

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You play a traffic engineer who draws freeway interchanges and ramps to keep cars flowing and jams at bay. A minimalist, brain-teasing planning puzzle with a simulation feel.

LogicBots

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A logic puzzle game where you design, build and wire your own robots to solve levels. Some bots you control directly, while others run on their own thanks to the logic you wire into them.

SpaceChem

Deep systems to master

A demanding programming puzzler where you lay out waldo paths and instructions to build reactors that break apart and assemble molecules. Open-ended solutions and optimization histograms reward creative, engineer-style thinking.

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Deep systems to master

A programming puzzler where you write assembly-style code for a broken, fictional computer to fix its nodes. Dry, demanding and all about tinkering and optimizing solutions.

Rover Mechanic Simulator

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